Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

I’m as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

It wasn’t because Eva had not tried her best. She had nearly killed herself trying. But she had been like a gifted mathematician set to paint a picture.

Eva had passionate love and devotion to give them, but neither patience nor understanding. There was no sacrifice in the world which she would not joyfully make for her children except to live with them.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can’t help being risky.

You can’t wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

The minute your group gets so big you don’t know anybody in it and they don’t know you, there’s hell to pay.

I never did,′ said the little girl, but in a less doubtful tone than she had ever used with that phrase so familiar to her. A dim notion was growing in her mind that the fact that she had never done a thing was no proof that she couldn’t.

The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school. She had always thought she was there to pass from one grade to another, and she was ever so startled to get a glimpse of the fact that she was there to learn how to read and write and cipher and generally use her mind, so she could take care of herself when she came to be grown up.